How can I delete bad Visual Studio templates?

Question

How do you remove the following noise templates that don't even work?

Answer 1

In Visual Studio: go to Tools > Extensions and Updates and then uninstall or disable the template.

Answer 2

To save a bit of time for 2010 users, the folder has moved:

...\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ProjectTemplates

Answer 3

For Visual Studio 2013, I found my template cache here:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ProjectTemplatesCache

Answer 4

Deleting them off of disk should do the trick. Where they exist will depend a bit on where you installed them. If you installed them for all users they will be at

%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual studio 9.0\Common7\Ide\ProjectTemplatesCache

For a single user they will be at

%USERPROFILE%\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates

EDIT

If InstallVSTemplates fails, it is likely one of the following. The one I can't help with is some program randomly dumping files inside of the ProjectTemplatesCache directory.

The other more likely cause is there is a bad template in the ProjectTemplates directory. InstallVSTemplates really just goes through this directory, and unzips all of the files into the ProjectTemplatesCache directory. You will have to search through this directory and find the .zip file which contains the junk files being added to your project Once you find the file, delete it, delete ProjectTemplatesCache, and then re-run InstallVSTemplates.

Answer 5

After manually searching for some of the custom profile templates(.vstemplate),I found them at the following location:

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\Extensions

It appears VS2010 installs some of the templates as extesions or the authors made it that way.I hope this helps someone.

May need to run "devenv /setup" at the run command to refresh the VS2010 after you delete the templates.

Answer 6

• Delete the bad/unwanted project folders from

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates

• Clear cache

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache

• Delete stuff from (perhaps not necessary)

C:\Users[Your User Name]\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates

and finally open Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt as Administrator and run

devenv /installvstemplates

Answer 7

For me it was a matter of removing it from here using VS2017: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_45552a03\ProjectTemplatesCache

Answer 8

For Visual Studio Express 2010 you should delete all folders under

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VCSExpress\10.0\Extensions

Answer 9

For me the issue got resolved when I deleted the cache.bin file from ItemTemplatesCache folder. Full path of this folder is:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache

Also make sure you delete the template files from below locations:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache
• C:\Users\Default\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ItemTemplates
• C:\Users[NT-USERNAME]\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Templates\ItemTemplates

Answer 10

For Visual Studio 2019: Extensions > Manage extensions > Installed > Uninstall

Answer 11

For Visual Studio 2013 Community, you have to delete {program folder}\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplatesCache\cache.bin after deleting all the unwanted files as described above. Afterwards VS will rebuild the templates listing in the New Project... dialog.

Answer 12

If the template was installed by double clicking a VSIX file, it is considered an extension and can be uninstalled using the technique described by Hamid Behnam above. Otherwise, it can be deleted from one of the template directories mentioned above.